Munich. The BMW Group has achieved
a best ever first-half-year sales outcome with a sum of 1,242,507
(+1.8%) BMW, MINI and Rolls-Royce vehicles delivered to customers. It
was also a record Jun for a company, with sales adult 2.7% to total
238,920 units worldwide.

“Our clever sales opening in Jun means we’ve now achieved 35
uninterrupted buliding of expansion and are assured this trend will
continue,” pronounced Pieter Nota, Member of a Board of
Management of BMW AG obliged for Sales and Brand BMW. “With
prolongation of a BMW X3 in China and South Africa ramping up, we will
be means to do a clever patron direct for a distinguished X
models and a second half year should be increasingly positive. I’m
also gay with a ongoing recognition of a electrified
vehicles, that achieved their best-ever month in June, gripping us
good on lane to grasp over 140,000 electrified sales by a finish of
a year,” Nota continued.

June deliveries of BMW i, BMW iPerformance and MINI Electric vehicles
totalled 13,806 vehicles worldwide, an boost of 47.6% on a same
month final year and a top monthly sum ever for BMW
Group electrified. Year-to-date sales of electrified BMW
and MINI vehicles totalled 60,660 (+42.5%), confirming a BMW Group’s
position as a heading tellurian provider of reward electrified mobility.
“We can see how good business respond in markets where
electromobility is upheld by a operation of measures,” commented Pieter
Nota. “For example, 3 buliding of a vehicles we sell in Norway
are electrified, while one in 3 BMW 5 Series delivered in
California is now a plug-in hybrid.” With a introduction of the
locally-built BMW 5 Series plug-in hybrid (fuel expenditure combined:
2.3-2.1 l/100 km; electricity expenditure combined:
14.1-13.1 kWh/100 km, CO2 emissions combined: 52-47 g/km) in China,
electrified sales in a BMW Group’s largest altogether marketplace have
increasing five-fold in a initial 6 months year-on-year, with a total
of 6,295 units sole so distant in 2018. First-half-year electrified sales
increasing significantly in several other vital markets, including the
USA (12,015 / +51.3%) and a UK (8,823 / +41.4%).

The BMW code sole some-more than 200,000 vehicles for
a initial time ever in June, flourishing sales 4.0% in a month to total
200,610. Sales in a year-to-date are adult 2.0% with 1,059,296
vehicles delivered to business worldwide in a initial half of the
year. All vital sales regions contributed to this growth. A operation of
models contributed to a sales boost in a year-to-date,
including a BMW 1 Series (98,396 / +7.2%), a BMW X1 (152,866 /
+11.8%) and a BMW 5 Series (191,185 / +14.9%). Thanks to its
softened accessibility in June, a BMW X3 achieved a 24.6% boost in
monthly sales, with a sum of 17,584 units delivered.

First half-year sales during MINI achieved a same high
turn as final year, with a sum of 181,430 (+0.1%) vehicles delivered
to business worldwide. MINI deliveries in Jun were down 3.8% (37,955).

Sales of Rolls-Royce engine cars in a initial half of
2018 were adult 13.1% (1,781) year‑on‑year. Demand for all Rolls‑Royce
models stays clever in many regions, including certain movement in
China, however marketplace conditions in a Middle East sojourn unsettled.
In further to glorious sales of new Phantom, direct for Black Badge
variants of Dawn, Ghost and Wraith continues to transcend expectations.
The new Rolls-Royce Cullinan was denounced in May to good commend and
already has a clever sequence book stretching good into subsequent year. First
patron deliveries of a new all-terrain indication are due in a first
entertain of 2019.

The routine of adjusting all BMW models to a newWLTP contrast routine is going to devise and a vast
infancy of models have now finished a retesting cycle. In
addition, around 190 models already do a Euro 6d
TEMP emissions requirements, that usually turn compulsory
from 1 Sep 2019. These models embody petrol, diesel, BMW i,
BMW iPerformance and BMW M vehicles. “We’re now means to offer our
business in Europe a extended operation of models that not usually have the
WLTP type-registration though also already do a Euro 6d TEMP
emissions standards,” pronounced Pieter Nota.

Deliveries of BMW Motorrad reward motorcycles and
maxi-scooters in a initial half of a year were tighten to the
intensely high turn achieved final year. In a year-to-date, a total
of 86,975 units were delivered to customers, a diminution of 1.6%
year-on-year. BMW Motorrad is significantly lovely a model
choice in 2018, with 9 new models being introduced, and the
associated adjustments in prolongation are inspiring deliveries. BMW
Motorrad continues to essay for sales expansion opposite a full calendar year.

In Europe, a BMW Group achieved good expansion in
many markets and BMW was a many renouned reward code in several
countries including a UK, Belgium and Austria.

BMW Group deliveries also increasing in a Americas,
where all markets available expansion in a initial half of a year, with
BMW a heading reward code in Mexico and several other Latin
American countries.

Sales also grew in Asia in a initial 6 months of
a year with several critical markets, including South Korea and
India, achieving double-digit growth.

With a 4 brands BMW, MINI, Rolls-Royce and BMW Motorrad, a BMW
Group is a world’s heading reward manufacturer of automobiles and
motorcycles and also provides reward financial and mobility services.
The BMW Group prolongation network comprises 30 prolongation and assembly
comforts in 14 countries; a association has a tellurian sales network in
some-more than 140 countries.

In 2017, a BMW Group sole over 2,463,500 newcomer vehicles and
some-more than 164,000 motorcycles worldwide. The distinction before taxation in the
financial year 2017 was € 10.655 billion on revenues amounting to
€ 98.678 billion. As of 31 Dec 2017, a BMW Group had a
workforce of 129,932 employees.

The success of a BMW Group has always been formed on long-term
meditative and obliged action. The association has therefore established
ecological and amicable sustainability via a value chain,
extensive product shortcoming and a transparent joining to
conserving resources as an constituent partial of a strategy.